ServerSocketChannel

public abstract class ServerSocketChannel extends AbstractSelectableChannel
implements NetworkChannel

A selectable channel for stream-oriented listening sockets.

A server-socket channel is created by invoking the open method of this class. It is not possible to create a channel for an arbitrary, pre-existing ServerSocket. A newly-created server-socket channel is open but not yet bound. An attempt to invoke the accept method of an unbound server-socket channel will cause a NotYetBoundException to be thrown. A server-socket channel can be bound by invoking one of the bind methods defined by this class.

Socket options are configured using the setOption method. Server-socket channels support the following options:

Option Name Description
SO_RCVBUF The size of the socket receive buffer
SO_REUSEADDR Re-use address
Additional (implementation specific) options may also be supported.

Server-socket channels are safe for use by multiple concurrent threads.

Protected Constructor Summary

ServerSocketChannel(SelectorProvider provider)
Initializes a new instance of this class.

Public Method Summary

abstract SocketChannel
accept()
Accepts a connection made to this channel's socket.
abstract ServerSocketChannel
bind(SocketAddress local, int backlog)
Binds the channel's socket to a local address and configures the socket to listen for connections.
final ServerSocketChannel
bind(SocketAddress local)
Binds the channel's socket to a local address and configures the socket to listen for connections.
abstract SocketAddress
getLocalAddress()
Returns the socket address that this channel's socket is bound to.

If there is a security manager set, its checkConnect method is called with the local address and -1 as its arguments to see if the operation is allowed.

static ServerSocketChannel
open()
Opens a server-socket channel.
abstract <T> ServerSocketChannel
setOption(SocketOption<T> name, T value)
Sets the value of a socket option.
abstract ServerSocket
socket()
Retrieves a server socket associated with this channel.
final int
validOps()
Returns an operation set identifying this channel's supported operations.

Inherited Method Summary

Protected Constructors

protected ServerSocketChannel (SelectorProvider provider)

Initializes a new instance of this class.

Parameters
provider The provider that created this channel

Public Methods

public abstract SocketChannel accept ()

Accepts a connection made to this channel's socket.

If this channel is in non-blocking mode then this method will immediately return null if there are no pending connections. Otherwise it will block indefinitely until a new connection is available or an I/O error occurs.

The socket channel returned by this method, if any, will be in blocking mode regardless of the blocking mode of this channel.

This method performs exactly the same security checks as the accept method of the ServerSocket class. That is, if a security manager has been installed then for each new connection this method verifies that the address and port number of the connection's remote endpoint are permitted by the security manager's checkAccept method.

Returns
  • The socket channel for the new connection, or null if this channel is in non-blocking mode and no connection is available to be accepted
Throws
ClosedChannelException If this channel is closed
AsynchronousCloseException If another thread closes this channel while the accept operation is in progress
ClosedByInterruptException If another thread interrupts the current thread while the accept operation is in progress, thereby closing the channel and setting the current thread's interrupt status
NotYetBoundException If this channel's socket has not yet been bound
SecurityException If a security manager has been installed and it does not permit access to the remote endpoint of the new connection
IOException If some other I/O error occurs

public abstract ServerSocketChannel bind (SocketAddress local, int backlog)

Binds the channel's socket to a local address and configures the socket to listen for connections.

This method is used to establish an association between the socket and a local address. Once an association is established then the socket remains bound until the channel is closed.

The backlog parameter is the maximum number of pending connections on the socket. Its exact semantics are implementation specific. In particular, an implementation may impose a maximum length or may choose to ignore the parameter altogther. If the backlog parameter has the value 0, or a negative value, then an implementation specific default is used.

Parameters
local The address to bind the socket, or null to bind to an automatically assigned socket address
backlog The maximum number of pending connections
Returns
  • This channel
Throws
AlreadyBoundException If the socket is already bound
UnsupportedAddressTypeException If the type of the given address is not supported
ClosedChannelException If this channel is closed
IOException If some other I/O error occurs
SecurityException If a security manager has been installed and its checkListen method denies the operation

public final ServerSocketChannel bind (SocketAddress local)

Binds the channel's socket to a local address and configures the socket to listen for connections.

An invocation of this method is equivalent to the following:

 bind(local, 0);
 

Parameters
local The local address to bind the socket, or null to bind to an automatically assigned socket address
Returns
  • This channel
Throws
AlreadyBoundException
UnsupportedAddressTypeException
ClosedChannelException
IOException
SecurityException If a security manager has been installed and its checkListen method denies the operation

public abstract SocketAddress getLocalAddress ()

Returns the socket address that this channel's socket is bound to.

Where the channel is bound to an Internet Protocol socket address then the return value from this method is of type InetSocketAddress.

If there is a security manager set, its checkConnect method is called with the local address and -1 as its arguments to see if the operation is allowed. If the operation is not allowed, a SocketAddress representing the loopback address and the local port of the channel's socket is returned.

Returns
  • The SocketAddress that the socket is bound to, or the SocketAddress representing the loopback address if denied by the security manager, or null if the channel's socket is not bound

public static ServerSocketChannel open ()

Opens a server-socket channel.

The new channel is created by invoking the openServerSocketChannel method of the system-wide default SelectorProvider object.

The new channel's socket is initially unbound; it must be bound to a specific address via one of its socket's bind methods before connections can be accepted.

Returns
  • A new socket channel
Throws
IOException If an I/O error occurs

public abstract ServerSocketChannel setOption (SocketOption<T> name, T value)

Sets the value of a socket option.

Parameters
name The socket option
value The value of the socket option. A value of null may be a valid value for some socket options.
Returns
  • This channel

public abstract ServerSocket socket ()

Retrieves a server socket associated with this channel.

The returned object will not declare any public methods that are not declared in the ServerSocket class.

Returns
  • A server socket associated with this channel

public final int validOps ()

Returns an operation set identifying this channel's supported operations.

Server-socket channels only support the accepting of new connections, so this method returns SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT.

Returns
  • The valid-operation set